The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-09-02
SOME NEW LAWS.


ers of the several counties of this Com
monwealth to discharge from prison all
persons confined in Jail, without pro-
ceedings under the insolvent laws,
SECTION l. BE it enacted, dc, That,
from and after the passage of this act,
the commissioners of the several count
les of this Commonwealth shall be and
they are hereby authorized, upon the
order of the court of quarter sessions,
or, in vacation, of law judge thereof,
in the exercise of its or his discretion,
and upon such terms as said court or
Judge as aforesaid may impose, to dis
charge from prison, without the delay
and expense of any proceedings under
the insolyent laws of this Common
wealth, every convict who shall have
served out his or her term of imprison-
ment, or who shall have been commit
ted for non payment of costs only, not
withstanding if he be a convict and
shall not have paid the costs of prose-
cution, fine, or made restitution, or
paid the costs of prosecution, fine,
or paid the value of stolen
goods or property: Provided,
That in the opinion of said commiss-
toner's such person is unable to pay or
restore the same and, provided, that
such discharge shall not prevent the
Commonwealth, or any person interest
ed In such payment or restitution, from
proceeding by action to recover the
same from the property of such person ).
but no such person shall be so discharg-
ed until he or she shall have made, un-
der oath or affirmation, duplicate
schedules OF all his or her property,
real, personal or mixed, so far as he or
she can ascertain the same, one of
which shall be fled among the papers
of the said prison, and the other with
the clerk of the court of quarter ses-
sions: Provided FURTHER, That moth
ing in said proceedings shall either add
to or take from the liability of said
county for costs, under existing laws
of this Commonwealth.
SEoTIoN 2. All laws or parts of laws
inconsistent herewith are hereby re-
pealed.
An act to prevent the mutilation, de.
struction, tearing down, or removing of
any show bills, placard, programme,
poster or other advertisement.
BE it enacted, &c, That any person
found guilty of willfully and malicious
ly mutilating, destroying, tearing down
or removing any show bill, placard,
programme, poster or other advertise
ment, posted upon any rail, fence, bill
board or other structure, in or located
upon any public highway, in this Com
monwealth, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction
shall he fined not less than twenty-five
dollars nor more than one hundred dol.
lars: Provided, The penalties of this
act shall not apply to those tearing
down or removing show bills, play bills,
posters, programmes, after the perform.
ance therein advertised, or to the own
or or teuant of any building, fence or
other structure, when the same has been
posted or put up without his or their
copsert except such owner or tenant
be the bill poster putting up or employ.
ed to put up the same.
An act to amend clause two, of Sec
ton thirty-one, of an act, entitled San
act to provide for the incorporation
and regulation of certain corporations,
approved the twenty-nnth day of
April, Ammo Domini one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-four, pro-
viding for increased rates OF tolls upon
bridges in certain cases.
BE IL enacted, &c, That clause two,
of section thirty-one, of said act, which
reads as follows, namely:
"When the said corporations shall
have erected and completed bridge
over any creek or river, under the
authority of this act, the property
thereof shall be vested in the said cor
poration, aud it shall have the power
to erect gates and to demand and re-
ceive tolls for crossing said bridge, at
such rates as the president and direc-
tors thereof shall, from time to time
determine, not exceeding the rates fol-
lowing, namely: For every score of
sheep or swine, eight cents for every
score of horned or muley cattle, twenty
five cents for every mule or horse,
driven or led, five cents for every
horse or mule, ladened or unladened,
with rider, five cents for every two
wheeled vehicle and one horse, six
cents the same with two horses, ten
cents for every four wheeled vehicle,
with two horses, fifteen cents for
either of the last named vehicles, with
four horses, twenty cents for every
foot passenger, two cents. Aud they
shall cause to be put up and kept in
some conspicuous place at the gaze of
said bridge list of the rates of toll"
be and the same is hereby amended to
read as follows, namely:
When the said corporation shall have
erected and completed a bridge over
any creek or river, under the authority
Of this act, the property thereof shall